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Jim Cassedy
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Posts: 1661
From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted 01-04-2015 11:11 AM
quote: Monte L Fullmer
and I worked in a booth (thank goodness that had doors on each end for an emergency exit)
Several of the 'nitrate booths' I've worked in over the years had those
big metal fire doors at each end that were counter-weighted and designed
to automatically slam shut when one of the fuzable-link chains over the
projectors melted in a fire- - thus 'trapping' the projectionist inside.
The whole idea of the port-shutters and doors was to keep the fire from
spreading to the auditorium. They really didn't give a damn about
whoever was in the booth. Think about it- - An auditorium fire would
cause immediate panic, which could possibly lead to a great number
of injuries or deaths, as can be historically documented. There's a lot
less "paperwork" if the only fatality is the projectionist.
(Blunt, but painfully true.)
If you go through some of the old IA union trade journals, you'll see
that up through the late 1940's, insurance companies considered being a
projectionist as a "hazardous job" and charged higher rates for it.
As for carbon arcs being "illegal" these days:
As others here have already mentioned, I don't believe there are any
laws/rules on the books that specifically prohibit the use of carbon arcs.
As Stephen Shelly correctly pointed out, there are several sill running here
in the SF Bay area, and I've even worked a couple of them.
HOWEVER, the municipal fire code regulations for many cities used to
require carbon-arc booths to be equipped with sand buckets and those
heavy duty fire-proof self closing trash cans for garbage & oily rags.
(Along with several other safety devices & requirements)
Many of these old codes are still on the books, so technically, if you are
running a carbon arc booth without them, you could be in violation
of some obscure fire-code regulation.
But I seriously doubt most "modern" fire inspectors are aware of these
old rules, so if you don't have them, I'd guess your chances of getting
tagged with a code violation are probably pretty remote.
(Although, just for the record, I'd still consider sand buckets and
enclosed trash/rag bins to be a very good idea in terms of safety even
in a 'modern' carbon-arc booth. No matter what the new regulations say)
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AND TELL ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE PICS TO SEE IF YOU CAN HELP ME IN MY INDEVOR WITH THIS OLD THEATRE EQUIPMENT PLEASE. EVERYTHING IS PRETTY MUCH A BRAND CALLED MOTIOGRAPH, EXCEPT THE AUTO REWIND MACHINE IS A GOLDE.
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